Device for heating and lighting



(No Model.)

L. T. WILGOX. DEVICE FOR HEATING AND LIGHTING.

No. 458,669. Patented Sept. 1, 1891.

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PATENT OFFICE.

JACKSON, MICHIGAN.

DEVICE FOR HEATING AND LIGHTING.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 458,669, datedSeptember 1, 1891.

Application filed May 31, 1890. Serial No. 353,737. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, LEWIS T. \VILOOX, a citizen of the United States,residing at Jackson, in the county of Jackson and State of Michigan,have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Devices for Heatingand Lighting; andIdo hereby declare the following to be a full, clear,and exact description of the invention, which will enable others skilledin the art to which it appertains to make and use the same, referencebeing had to the accompanying drawings and the letters of referencemarked thereon, which form a part of this specification.

This invention relates to new and useful improvements in a device forheating and lighting; and it consists in the construction, combination,and arrangement of parts, as fully hereinafter set forth and claimed.

The objects of the improvements hereinafter described are to produce aninexpensive, convenient, efficient, and portable device for heating andlighting with the same fuel, at the same time, and at the single expenseof either; and the device may be so constructed as to be utilized as auseful article of furniture when not serving in another capacity, aswill be more fully hereinafter described.

Referring to the drawings, in which like letters of reference refer tolike parts in the several figures, Figure 1 is avertical side elevationof my improved device for heating and lighting. Fig. 2 is a top planview of the same. Fig. 3 is a vertical central longitudinal sectionthrough the same.

A is a section of wood or other suitable material, and which may be ofany desired plan, the plan here shown being circular, centrallyapertured, and resting upon and secured to a series of supports or legsB, which may likewise be of any'suitable material and design, and O isan air-tube, constructed of any suitable material, secured betweerrthelegs 13, the bottom end supported at a little distance from the floorand the top end secured in the central aperture of the top A.

D is an annular casing, constructed of any suitable material, butpreferably of brass or other suitable metal, resting upon and detachably secured to the top A, and E is a transparent chimney,preferably constructed of glass, resting upon and det-achably secured tothe casing D.

J is an air-passage within the tube C, the upper end communicating withthe air-chamber within casingD and chimney E and forming a completeair-passage through the parts.

F is a series of suitable gas-burners arranged and secured within thecasing D by a series of braces H or by other suitable means in such amanner asto not obstruct the airpassage, the gas being supplied throughthe stopcock G and tube I. The stop-cock and tube immediately connectingwith the burner F are preferably constructed of brass; but the externalportion of the tube I may be con structed of metal or of any suitableflexible material and connected with the supply-pipe.

I do not wish to be confined to any particular material, design, ormanner of construction, for it is obvious that is unimportant,

the invention consisting in the construction of a suitable portablesupporting-stand provided with an air-tube and means whereby the same isvertically secured to the stand, its lower end near the floor and itsupper end communicating through an aperture in the top of the stand witha transparent chimney and an intermediate inclosed gas or oil burner soconstructed that the air may freely circulate through all the parts. Thelight is transmitted through the transparent chimney. The air-supply forthe burner and the cold air are taken from the floor and heated andpassed into the room. It is not necessary that the air-passage bevertical within the strict meaning of the Word, as that isimpracticable; but it is necessary to have one end sufliciently near thefloor to attract the cold air and the other end elevated to induce therapid outward passage of the heat-ed air. It is not essential that theair-passage be circular in plan, nor that it be of a uniform size, forit is obvious that it may be larger in some portions than in otherswithout materially affecting the results or purposes for which it isintended. I preferably construct the sup porting-stand of the form shownand support or detachably secure the inclosed burner and chimneythereon, and when the device is not required for the above purposes theymay be removed and the stand may be utilized as a useful article offurniture.

The parts being thus constructed and arranged, they are intended tooperate as follows: The burner being lighted, the air Within the casingand chimney is rapidly heated and rises and passes out of the top, a newsupply of airbeing admitted through the airpassage J, the cold air inthe apartment always being passed through the tube and efficientlyheating the room by circulation, and the light is transmitted throughthe transparent chimney, rendering simultaneously an efficient light andwith the limited consumption of fuel required for either alone.

What I claim as my invention, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

1. In a device for heating and lighting, a portable supporting-standconsisting of the top A and legs B and provided with an unobstructedair-passage J, thelower end of which extends to near the floor of theapartment and its upper end secured to and communi eating With anaperture in the top of the stand, substantially as described.

2. The combination, with a portable supporting-stand constructed with anair-passage extending from near the floor of the apartment to andconnected with an aperture in the top of the stand, of a transparentchimney and an intermediate inclosed burner detachably supported'uponsaid stand and communicating with the air-passage and chimney andconstructed and arranged in such a manner that the air may freelycirculate through the parts, substantially as described, for the purposespecified.

In testimony whereof Iaffix my signature in the presence of twoWitnesses.

LEWVIS T. XVILCOX.

Witnesses:

OHARLEs H. BROWN, ENOCH BANCKER.

